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Australian commercial broadcaster Seven has secured the rights to the Australian PGA Championship golf tournament under a multi-year deal commencing with the 2014 event.

Irish public-service broadcaster RTÉ, pay-television broadcasters Sky Sports and Setanta Sports, and Irish-language free-to-air broadcaster TG4 have been awarded rights for the Gaelic Athletic Association in Ireland, while commercial broadcaster Seven has acquired rights in Australia.

The V8 Supercars motor-racing series has agreed domestic rights deals with Australian commercial broadcaster Ten Network, pay-television operator Foxtel and pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports.

Golf: The US PGA Tour signed new six-year deals with the CBS and NBC networks, from 2007 to 2012.

Analysts claim that Australian commercial broadcasters Seven and Ten overpaid for Australian Football League rights

UK pay-operator’s English Premier League deal was year's largest television sports-rights deal.

Fifa agreed to sell World Cup rights for 2010 and 2014 to Australian public-service broadcaster SBS for only two-thirds the amount it could have got.

Football’s governing body in Australia hopes to increase television-rights revenue for national team’s matches